“Are you here for the Meeting? If you are, I’ll toast you a bagel,” John Spriggs says, leaning over the breakfast buffet at the Limelight Hotel in Aspen. Spriggs is in town this weekend for the Meeting, a pre-season ski industry movie festival. Last night, the Teton Gravity Research crew showed “Light the Wick”—complete with a Spriggs, Sammy Carlson, Byron Wells jump session—at the top of Aspen mountain and tonight, Poor Boyz will put on a showing of “Revolver.’

Where did you shoot last year? I was a Stevens Pass with TGR. For “Revolver,” I filmed all over. We went to Whistler, Mt. Bachelor, Revelstoke, and Silverton. We got a good pow days at Revelstoke, and in Silverton I hit a big road gap over Red Mountain pass with Simon Dumont and Peter Olenick. That was sick, but it was kind of a tough year. We did lots of driving around in circles.

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What are you up to now?

I’m living in Minturn (just outside of Vail), with my girlfriend, right by the end of the Minturn Mile. I like it because it feels like you’re way far away from everything when you’re not, and I can ski there, which is cool. I’m also taking classes at Colorado Mountain College, I’m taking introduction to business, and first aid and CPR.

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Anything slowing you down?I had shoulder surgery on my labrum about a month and half ago. I’ve had four surgeries in the past 5 years. I’ve blown my shoulder twice, I did my knee, and I broke my face.

Broke your face? Yeah, I was at Mt Baker. I threw a double cork 12, landed in a bomb hole, and got a knee to the face. My eyebrow was hanging loose. But, I’m kind of lucky. I’ve always had injures at times when I can get stuff done, it’s never ruined my season.

What’s the plan for this season? My shoulder should be good, and I should be back on skis by mid December. Then, the plan is to film with Tanner Hall and TGR.

In 1996, legendary big-mountain skier Trevor Petersen was killed skiing in Chamonix, France. In 2005, his 15-year-old son Kye went to Chamonix in with his dad’s friends to ski the line that killed his father. The film that documents his experience, The Edge of Never, comes out this fall.

The Canadian mountaineer is attempting to ski two million vertical feet under his own power this year. He’s more than half way done. He broke down the vert, told us what he does to stay motivated, and gave a warning about Chilean chicken heads.

Ski racer Lindsey Vonn was just named Female Athlete of the Decade by NBC's Universal Sports. After months of waiting for an interview, we finally managed to get Vonn to answer some of our questions. But instead of asking her about the Vancouver Olympics coming up in February, we spoke to the two-time World Champion about what it's like being hounded by the press.